Family, Faith, and Individuality: An interview with memoir writer Daniel Boerman

1) Please tell us about your book.

            Imagine living on a small family farm in a tiny, isolated community in southwest Michigan during the 1950’s and 1960’s.  Imagine a world consisting almost exclusively of family life, work on the farm, attendance at a two room country school and participation in weekly services at the local church.  This was the world of my childhood, the world described in my memoir.  Our Dutch Reformed community was small and close-knit, and most of our social life was limited to visiting close relatives and other members of our church.  Occasional excursions beyond our local community were thus exciting adventures.  Riding with my dad to a livestock auction, a trip to a drive-in restaurant in a nearby town or a yearly visit to a county fair were special occasions to be anticipated and savored for weeks.

            In this setting I grew up with my parents and two sisters.  My dad was a full-time farmer until my teenage years, and my mom was a full-time homemaker who struggled with chronic and undiagnosed health problems throughout my childhood years.  I was a skinny, red-haired boy who was usually more comfortable at home with my family than in some new or unfamiliar social setting.

            My book contains many stories about life in our family and on the farm, in school and in church.  It records the terror of a runaway sled ride, the challenge of trying to devise projects to make money on the farm, the excitement of learning to drive a tractor for the first time, and many more interesting experiences.  

The book concludes with my graduation from high school in 1969.

2) What inspired you to write your memoir?

            The initial inspiration for writing my memoir was simply the thought about how much life had changed since I was a boy.  I remember shoveling coal into the furnace downstairs to keep our house warm and my mom using her wringer washing machine every Monday morning when she did the laundry.  I thought it would be a good idea to record what life was like at the unique time and place of my childhood.

            As I began to work on the memoir, however, it also became more of a personal journey for me.  How were the joys, challenges and disappointments of adult life prefigured in my childhood experiences?  Did my hopes and dreams as a child have an important influence in shaping how I approached and experienced life later on?  The deeper I got into my childhood, the more connections I could see with who I am today.

3) A good memoir isn't just a story of an interesting life, it also explores universal themes that can engage readers from a variety of backgrounds. How does your memoir speak to readers who don't share your background?

            My memoir describes many values affirmed by my family and community.  Experiencing, challenging and living out our inherited values is a theme many readers can appreciate.  Having a family that stayed loyal to each other and remained intact in spite of serious challenges is a value I celebrate, endorse and recommend to everyone.  Growing up on a farm also taught me that responsibility and hard work were necessary parts of life.  Picking pickles as a boy was a task so boring that at times I didn’t know if I could endure it any longer.  I thought the boredom would permanently warp my brain.  But my brain and I both survived in good shape, and I would like to think that enduring that experience equipped me to endure other difficult and boring tasks I have faced as an adult.  Although my Christian faith has developed and changed in significant ways since my childhood, it, too, has continued as an essential part of who I am as an adult.

4) What main themes does your memoir explore?

            When a small boy, I occasionally dreamed that I could begin flapping my arms like wings and fly above my astonished family, our house and our farmyard.  It was an exhilarating experience to rise above the normal, human perspective and see reality from a bird’s-eye view.  That experience inspired me to imagine the fantastic possibilities for my life, and it gave birth to the title of my book, The Flying Farm Boy.

            My dream was almost laughable.  I was part of a very ordinary family living in a tiny, obscure community far from any prominence or power.  And I was a skinny, red-haired boy deficient in athletic prowess and in social skills.  I was so shy that I had to advance to the mature age of twenty before I first dared to ask a girl out on a date.  But I kept dreaming, anyway.  Not all of my dreams have come true, but the power of my childhood dream has motivated me through much of my adult life.  Thus my dream of overcoming my isolation and insecurity is a primary theme in my book.

            A secondary theme is the difficulty of learning to affirm myself as an individual in distinction from what my family and society expected of me.  For example, the stern Calvinistic God of my childhood often scared me, and I didn’t understand how to make peace with him.  Sometimes I didn’t know if I could even believe in him anymore.  Was faith a real, living part of my own fabric or was it merely part of the air I breathed in my community?  When I reached maturity, would I discard my childhood faith as something I had outgrown or would I reclaim it as my own?

            It was also sometimes hard to know if I did certain things simply because it was expected of me or because I actually enjoyed them.  As a teenager I participated in the annual fall rite of pheasant hunting simply because it was expected of me.  I went so far as to skip school on the first day of pheasant hunting even though this meant all my grades were docked for doing so and even though my grades were much more important to me than was hunting.  I had not yet matured enough to know that I should follow my own heart rather than conform to social expectations.

5) Are there any memoirs you've read that have personally inspired you?

            There is an older, out-of-print memoir by Ronald Jager called Eighty Acres.  This book is a record of life on a Michigan farm for the generation before mine, and, as such, it encouraged me to think that such a project was feasible for me, too.   More recent memoirs I enjoyed include Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and James McBride’s The Color of Water.  Although both of them deal with family circumstances more challenging than were mine, they nonetheless encouraged me to consider the possibilities of the genre for my own situation.

6) Please tell us about your other projects.

            In the past I have published numerous essays in religious magazines, a few poems and one short story.  One of my current ongoing projects is a blog called “Rural Ramblings” at www.danielboerman.authorweblog.com.  I hope to do something in the future to tell the story of Christianity in a way that appeals to our postmodern culture, but I have not decided on the format for that at this point.

7) Do you have an excerpt you'd like to share?

            One morning when I was ten years old, Mom took me for a ride in the family car that I will never forget.  I watched the early spring scenes of muddy fields and patches of snow sail past the window of the car as if in a dream.  Would I ever enjoy these familiar sights again?  Would life ever be the same again?  Mom was driving me to Zeeland Hospital to get my tonsils removed.

            During the past years I had a lot of colds and sore throats, and Dr. Yff decided that getting my tonsils and adenoids removed was the cure.  Since Dad and Mom trusted Dr. Yff to do what was best for me, they agreed that I should have this surgery.  But no one asked my opinion.  I felt like a lamb led to the slaughter.  Being in an unconscious state while a doctor took a knife to my throat sounded terrifying.  Could I really trust Dr. Yff?  Did he know what he was doing?  What if he slipped and cut my vocal chords or my tongue instead of my tonsils?  What if the bleeding wouldn’t stop?  What if…I died?  Who knew what awful things could happen to me once I had lost consciousness?

            Mom gave me a hug and kiss, and a nurse led me by the hand into the operating room.  After lying down on a table in the middle of the room, they strapped me down like an animal being prepared for sacrifice.  But instead of plunging in a knife to achieve a quick kill, they devised a slow and torturous method of subduing me.  They put an apparatus over my mouth and nose that held cotton batting soaked with ether.  Every time I breathed, I inhaled a little more of the ether’s noxious fumes.  As I kept inhaling that awful smell, the fumes gradually sent me reeling into a nether world of darkness and panic.

            My head began to pound with an incessant noise that grew louder and louder.  I could feel myself drifting off into a dark world I dreaded to enter.  I was sure I was dying, and there was nothing I could do to stop it.  Never before had I so much wanted to escape and fly away.  But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t free myself from my restraints and the stifling ether smell.

            The next thing I knew, I woke up in a hospital bed with the worst sore throat I had ever experienced.  But I was alive!  Wonders of wonders, I had survived the ordeal!  I went home that same night to recover in more familiar surroundings.             

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Thanks, Dan.

If you'd like to see more from Dan please visit him at www.flyingfarmboy.com and www.danielboerman.authorweblog.com.

The Flying Farm Boy can be purchased at www.winepresspublishing.com and Amazon.

The Playground Before The War to End All Wars: An interview with Gabriele Wills

1) Please tell us about your book.

The Summer Before the Storm is the first in an epic trilogy that begins in 1914 in legendary Muskoka – the summer playground of the affluent and powerful in the rugged Canadian Shield. Amid the pristine, island-dotted lakes and pine-scented forests, the young and carefree amuse themselves with glittering balls and friendly competitions. This summer promises to be different when the destitute son of a disowned heir joins his wealthy family at their cottage on Wyndwood Island. Through Jack’s introduction into the privileged life of the aristocratic Wyndhams and their social circle, he seeks opportunities and alliances to better himself, including in his schemes, his beautiful and audacious cousin, Victoria. But their charmed lives begin to unravel with the onset of the Great War, in which many are destined to become part of the “lost generation”.

You can get a sense of the setting and story on this YouTube trailer.

2) What got you interested in writing a book about World War I?

I wanted to evoke the unique lifestyle of Muskoka’s Age of Elegance, and the war provided a perfect counterpoint. People live more intensely and passionately in tumultuous times when death is unpredictable and unprecedented. I also wanted to highlight the lesser-known aspects of that war, especially women’s unsung contributions. They stepped from genteel drawing rooms into the horrors of makeshift hospitals and dangers of driving ambulances on the front lines – which are portrayed thoroughly in book 2, Elusive Dawn. It’s not so much a war story, as a tale about a generation tested by extraordinary times.

3) Please tell a bit about your main characters.

Victoria Wyndham is the feisty, tempestuous heroine who rebels against the stultifying restrictions of her Edwardian life. But she’s neither a suffragette nor a bluestocking, like her cousin Zoë. Mad cousin Phoebe has an uncanny knack of seeing and telling the truth, which others rarely appreciate. Their families are firmly ruled by Grandmother Augusta Wyndham, but charming, ambitious cousin Jack disrupts their complacent world.

Augusta is determined that sensible Justin Carrington should marry Victoria, since he should be able to control her impetuous nature. Also vying for Victoria’s affections is charismatic Chas Thornton, who’s trying to find a path for himself in a self-indulgent world.

Doctor siblings Blake and Eleanor Carlyle annoy Augusta with their socialism and middle-class sensibilities. The “downstairs” life is seen through the eyes of the parlour maid, Molly, who is not all that she appears.

A supporting cast of friends and relatives – including artists and gold-diggers - helps to bring the era to life.

4) What sort of themes do you explore in your book?

Love and betrayal in different guises – familial and romantic.

The contrast between the rich and the poor, as seen through Jack’s experiences as well as through the servants’. There’s also the contrast between the free-spirited Bohemians and the chaperoned young people continually pushing for freedoms that scandalize their elders.

Family dynamics are explored, exposing that things are not always as they seem. Some people are living lies, and many have secrets. Madness is brushed aside as immaturity. There’s also a great burden of duty to family as well as to country.

This was a time of monumental change, particularly for women, who were invading “men’s realms”, seeking independence, and eager to “do their bit” for the war effort.

Overcoming adversity is a challenge for many of the characters. Obviously the war provides trials both physical and psychological. The true impact of that cataclysm can be appreciated through the eyes of these individuals.

5) What sort of research did you do to help ensure you were accurately bringing the period to life?

I really need to immerse myself in all aspects of an era, from food to philosophy. I read over 100 books, my favourites being memoirs and letters, in which there are intriguing details about daily life as well as the actual voices of the time, elucidating the language, morals, and values. They also provided incidents that I used for my characters. For instance, flying with top ace Billy Bishop and others helped me to understand the life of pilots, and the intensity of aerial battles. I was thrilled when Bishop’s son said I got it right!

I visited museums and archives, WW1 battlefields and cemeteries, explored hundreds of websites, and joined three online war forums, where I asked experts about obscure facts I couldn’t find anywhere else.  I’m particularly fascinated by odd and often unbelievable bits of social history. Notes at the end of my books assure readers that these quirky events are true.

6) Is there anything you feel people misunderstand about World War I? 

There’s a misconception that soldiers spent most of their time in the front-line trenches. In fact, there were long periods when the men were safely behind the lines. Tennis and polo matches, soccer and baseball games, dances and entertainments were all part of the military experience in France. You can find more on my website, Odd, Intriguing, Surprising Facts about WWI,

7) Please tell us about your other works.

Elusive Dawn (Book 2) and Under the Moon (Book 3) continue to follow the lives, loves, and fortunes of the Wyndhams and their friends through the war and the glittering Jazz Age.

A Place to Call Home is a saga set in Canada’s less civilized pioneer past.

Moon Hall is a Gothic tale of two women in different centuries.

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Thanks, Gabriele.

If you're interested in more from Gabriele or purchasing her novels, please visit http://www.themuskokanovels.com/.

A Horrible Wager and Fairy Tale Reinterpretation: An interview with fantasy author Adrianna Morgan

1) Please tell us about your book.

Once Upon a Fairytale Princess is a 45,000-word paranormal romance novel that takes some of what we know about fairy tales and twists it. After all, the plot is simple. What if every fairy tale we’ve read were snippets of one girl’s life? Ella Fitzpatrick is a young woman trying to hold her family together after her mother and two aunts are killed. The only thing she has of her mother’s is a crystal pendant and a pair of glass heels. Her father, in his grief, makes a horrible wager, forcing Ella to prove herself or lose the only home she has ever known. Just as horrible are her conflicting feelings for Prince Ethan and his bodyguard—her childhood friend—Hunter Kirk. The only thing Ella wants is her very own happily ever after, but will she have to choose between the Prince and his Beastly guard?

2) Please tell us about your opening.

“My daughter is far more talented than any spawn that spewed from your loins!” While the lead in this case was a bit dramatic, I wanted Ella to start her story in the middle of what becomes the beginning of the end. Her father is drunk and after an argument, sets the boast which sends Ella’s life spiraling out of control.

3) What inspired this particular book?

I have an affinity for fairy tales and during a conversation with my mother while watching television, the idea came to me: what if Cinderella, Snow White, and all the other fairy tale princesses were actually one girl and the stories were all one adventure in which this young woman has to adapt and change her appearance and her mannerisms in order to survive? What would that tale be like? How would she change? Why? It seemed too good of an idea to let go, so I experimented with it and the book was born.

4) What separates a fairy tale, in your opinion, from just basic fantasy?

Fairy tales can be differentiated from fantasies in that the fairy tale world is one of magic and hope and love. There is always a happily-ever-after and a moral of some sort. In the fairy tale, the main character overcomes some great obstacle and learns a lesson in the interim. Fantasies can have some of these aspects, but there is something about a fairy tale, that tangible feeling, where as you read it, you just know. Fairy tales also seem to have the heroine as the main character; it is her life, her mistakes and her triumphs that you read about. She is the one who becomes the champion and essentially, the hero. Fantasies can focus on many different aspects of the story, but the love and what the heroine goes through in the fairy tale makes it different. And although you know how it will end, the journey and the message become an integral part of the story.

5) We're in a bit of a cross-media fairy tale revival. There have been multiple recent movies revisiting classic fairy tales, more scheduled to come down the pipe, multiple network dramas based on fairy tale themes, and many books. What do you think is behind this recent trend?

It is more than simply fairy tales. We are seeing a return to the past. What was once old has become retro and such, it has become interesting. In addition to the fairy tales, we are seeing remakes of movies and television shows from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. The idea of ‘recycling’ the different stories with a twist or a modern update makes for a great change from the stories we read and loved as children and it endears us to the newer version of the story.

6) Although fairy tales have been rewritten and changed throughout the ages, many modern readers often tend to think of them as more a fixed quantity, due to certain particular interpretations (e.g., Grimm's fairy tales, Perrault, Disney, et cetera) spreading in popularity because of the role of mass media. Do you think that anything is loss by this gradual waning of fluidity in the stories, or do you think things are still just as dynamic as they've always been?

I think the Westernized stories have become too blasé. And this is why some people have issues with the “message” they believe fairy tales send to young women. But the original stories were truly gruesome in some regards. Think back to Grimm’s fairy tales. In the Cinderella we know, there are singing woodland creatures and a pumpkin and the glass slippers. However, the original story had the sisters mutilating themselves in order to present themselves to the Prince. They were horrifically fascinating. The message of the story is lost and instead of Cinderella being a story about perseverance and hard work, it becomes about beauty and fashion, which fits in fine with our materialistic society. But the beauty and intrigue of the story gets convoluted and eventually lost.

7) You also seem to have a writing interest in another mythic subject embedded in our culture: the werewolf. Please tell us a bit about your werewolf books.

Mythology has always been a huge part of my life. I have read myths from all over the world; Greek, Roman, Chinese, and Egyptian. Even my favorite story as a child was an Arab myth. My werewolf series “The Blue Moon Trilogy” is a look at my love for mythology. The series utilizes Native American myths from both Alaska and Florida in addition to the mysticism one expects from mythology.

Book 1 in the series is called Tala and is about a young girl who is attacked on her 10th birthday by a group of rogue werewolves. She manages to escape, but her mother is not so lucky. 19 years later, the young woman, Layla, is in college, trying to get her life together and starts to have disturbing experiences. And three strangers; an old man who knows more than he lets on, a guy who is more than he seems, and the werewolf who killed her mother, are back in her life. Now Layla has to decide who is friend and who is foe. The book is available now on Amazon.com, while books 2 and 3 will be out in December and January, respectively.

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Thanks, Adrianna.

Adrianna Morgan was born in the Bahamas. Of both West Indian and African ancestry, she was exposed to the shadowy world of the supernatural at a young age. She was blessed with a mother that knew the importance of a good ghost story making her fascinated by anything that goes bump in the night. Adrianna is obsessed with werewolves, vampires and demons, oh my! A Marine Biology teacher by day, she is still intrigued by the weird and the unusual. Currently, she has 10 books on Amazon and has challenged herself to write one full novel per month this year, although she admits
she is ready to throw in the towel.

Visit her at http://adriannamorgan.com for more of her books.

Once Upon a Fairytale Princess is available at Amazon.

One Person Can Change The World: An interview with Glenn Snyder

1) Tell us about your book.

One Moment in Time simply put is a story about how one person can change the world.  Jack Barrett is an average guy, at twenty-three, he lives with his parents and works for his father.  On a stormy November evening, his Ford Mustang is hit by a drunk driver running a red light.  As he was fighting to survive, Jack realized there was more to life, and he wanted to experience it.  This revelation changed Jack’s life, his journey taking him all over the world, gaining experiences and skills that would propel him to the global stage.  In the end, Jack would become one of the greatest leaders the world had ever seen.

2) Tell us about your lead, Jack.

When creating Jack, I thought about what type of person could excel in politics and business, while keeping his personal ego in check.  Jack has his quirks, like an odd sense of humor and an impulsiveness that has gotten him into trouble.  However, Jack has a good heart and often looks for the greater good over personal gain.

3) What is the main theme your book explores?

There are two main themes of One Moment in Time.  The first is about taking opportunities.  Everyday, each of us are presented with opportunities to do something.  It can be as simple as picking up a piece of trash on the ground versus walking by and leaving it there.  Jack is an example of what can happen if one proactively looks to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves.

The second theme is about the state of politics today.  Too many times, our leaders seem more interested in getting re-elected and saving their jobs than doing what’s in the best interest of their constituents.  Imagine what the world could be if our leaders were more focused on leading than personal gain.

4) You've said the idea of this book came from a dream. Tell us a bit about that.

We all have many dreams every night, however most of the dreams are forgotten by the time we awaken, and those that are initially remembered often fade quickly.  However, sometimes we have dreams that really stick with us.  That was the case with One Moment in Time.  I didn’t come up with the whole book from that dream, but the dream did give me the premise and the twist that makes One Moment in Time a unique tale.  I would tell you more, but I don’t want to ruin the story.

5) Please tell us about your literary influences.

Although there were many historical novels and plays that I absolutely love (A Tale of Two Cities and Hamlet to name two), I didn’t really get into mainstream reading until I read The Firm by John Grisham.  The story was engaging, and Grisham’s writing style was simple and allowed the reader to quickly move through the story.  After The Firm, I started to get into stories by Jonathan Kellerman, Michael Crichton, David Baldacci, James Grippando, Dan Brown, and Brad Thor. 

There were also many authors that I didn’t enjoy who influenced me as well, but I won’t mention their names.  Those authors seemed more interested in showing off their vocabulary than telling a story.  I’ve tried to keep my writing about the story more than the individual words.

6) Please share with us about your other projects.

I am currently writing my second novel.  It’s a story about a successful stock broker whose wife is poisoned.  His life begins to crumble, as he’s accused of the murder.  The press hounds him and the publicity costs him his job and friends.  He’s in a fight for his life, all the while trying to grieve for his wife that he dearly loved.

7) Do you have any particular excerpts you'd like to share?

The following excerpt is from one of my favorite segments of the book.  Jack and his wife Maggy are in Oaxaca, Mexico visiting an orphanage…

Jack put the dishes and utensils, along with the serving bowls, in the sink.  Isabel and Araceli started on the dishes while Jack took out the trash.  Isabel pointed to a door at the far end of the kitchen that looked more like a heavy dark screen.  Jack probably hadn’t noticed it before, because its thickness made it difficult to see through.  Jack grabbed the two trash bag bundles and headed outside.

The other side of the door was an alleyway off the main road.  The small, unpaved path, which was similar to the road at the front entrance, was squashed between the walls of La Ciudad para los Niños and the walls of the backside of what Jack could only assume were houses.  Jack noticed a giant trash bin to his right and threw the trash over the side of the bin.  Suddenly, Jack heard a woman screaming “¡Ayúdame! ¡Ayúdame!”  Jack didn’t know much Spanish, but he did know that scream meant, “Help me!”

Jack looked around the bin and saw a woman in her late twenties running with a small child in her arms.  She looked frazzled and exhausted.  She was slender and couldn’t be more than five and a half feet tall.  She was wearing a torn cotton striped shirt and ripped jeans.  As she got closer, Jack noticed she had several bruises on her face and arms.  The child she was holding wasn’t very big, but it was hard for Jack to gauge.  Jack couldn’t imagine what this woman was going through, but she continued running towards him yelling “¡Ayúdame! ¡Ayúdame!” 

Instinctively, Jack moved closer to see how he could help the woman and yelled back in English, “What?  What’s wrong?”

The woman continued her sprint towards Jack and continued yelling “¡Ayúdame! ¡Ayúdame!” 

When the woman was next to Jack, she handed her child to him.  He looked down at the little girl suddenly in his arms.  She was quiet, but tears rolled down her face.  Jack looked up and the woman was already twenty yards away from them, running up the hill.  He looked down at the girl again, then a vehicle came seemingly out of nowhere.  With all of the excitement, he hadn’t even heard the large SUV bouncing up the alleyway.

The car was a dark blue Chevy Tahoe with two young men seated in the front.  Jack couldn’t get a good look at them, because by the time he noticed the car, they were passing him.  He didn’t think either man in the Tahoe noticed him or the little girl.  The Tahoe continued up the hill after the woman.  The driver rolled down his window and stuck out his arm.  In his hand was a large gun.  After two quick, deafening explosions from the gun, the car stopped.

Recognizing that the girl was probably also in danger, Jack jumped behind the trash bin, holding her tightly in his arms.  He peeked between the lid and the bin and saw the driver get out of the car.  He was dressed in slacks, a dark dress shirt, and black cowboy boots with a white star on the side.  The colors of his clothes were difficult to determine because of the way the sun was reflecting off the Tahoe.  The driver held his arm out.  Another two shots.  The man spit on the woman, looked around, and Jack jumped out of sight praying they didn’t see him.  The young girl was squeezing Jack as tightly as she could, and Jack squeezed back.  He heard the door to the SUV close, and then the vehicle turned around and began moving back down the hill.

With his senses on full alert, Jack could have sworn that as the Tahoe was passing the rear door to the kitchen, it slowed down to take a careful look.  By this time, Jack had completely barricaded himself and the little girl between the trash bin and a small wall near the kitchen.  They sat perfectly still and silent. 

The car continued down the road, but Jack did not move until the Tahoe was out of hearing range.  He slowly got up and peeked down the road.  The coast was clear.  The little girl was still clinging to Jack’s neck.  He wanted to go check on her mother, but didn’t want the little girl’s last memory of her mother to be of her lying dead in a dirt alley.  He walked into the kitchen and it was empty; all of the dishes had been cleaned, dried, and neatly stacked.  He continued into the dining hall and found Maggy and Victoria chatting away.  They looked up at him and noticed he was sweating profusely.

About Glenn Snyder:

Glenn Snyder grew up in Marin County, a few miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. After graduating from UCLA, Glenn worked as a finance professional. In 2001, Glenn earned his MBA from the University of San Francisco. Shortly after his MBA, Glenn pursued two of his dreams, teaching and writing, while still working full time. For five years, Glenn taught Finance at San Francisco State University, while he also wrote the first draft of One Moment in Time. In May of 2011, Glenn published his first novel, One Moment in Time. Glenn is currently a Finance Director and is working on his second novel.

Visit www.OneMomentInTimeNovel.com to find out more.

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The Fading Power of Marriage and the Growing Power of a Prosecutor: An interview with Daniiel Q. Steele about When We Were Married

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Modern Wizardry - I'm interviewed by Helen Hanson

I was interviewed by Helen Hanson about The Emerald City, inspiration, and a mess of other stuff:

http://www.helenhanson.com/interviews/modern-wizard-j-a-beard-author-of-the-emerald-city/